Optum·Software Engineer

Optum Software Engineer interview experience

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BengaluruPosted Oct 2025 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My first technical step was a longer, broad assessment—about 40 to 50 minutes—covering multiple areas.

It began like most interviews do with a quick introduction, then moved into core OOP concepts such as inheritance. From there, it expanded into networking topics (including things like network topology), software engineering tradeoffs like waterfall versus agile, and cloud fundamentals.

The practical part was web-development focused: I had to create a basic notepad-style page and talk through CSS concepts, including the idea of object-oriented thinking applied to styling and whether inheritance could play a role there. After that, I did a simple C++ coding task to find the middle

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